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Dropped Frames During Capture
I’ve spent a bunch of time now going over every post in this archive and can’t find the answer.
I capture from a Panasonic DVX100 to a G5 dual 1.8 (yeah, I know – not the greatest but it works for me (well, usually))
I capture over FW. Cam is connected to the front port on the Mac – the drives to a FW 800 card on the back of the Mac. My drives have plenty of room and I’ve tried switching drives.
I’ve been doing this for a few years – never had a problem.
Today I get dropped frames.
In trying to troubleshoot this, I put back in a tape I had already successfully captured and it gave me the same damn dropped frames thing.
I tried trashing my prefs – didn’t help.
I tried turning off Abort Capture on Dropped frames and it still captures the footage but the footage has dropped frames in it. (Basically where the frame is dropped I get a freeze frame for 1/2 a second or so, then it jumps back to where it should be.)
The only thing I changed on this computer recently was I added more RAM. I put in two Patriot 1 GB chips.Can anyone help?
RJ Thomas
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8 Replies
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Oh yeah – and adding insult to injury – it turns out that everything I capture with the “abort on dropped frames” turned off is out of sync after the dropped frames.
RJ
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Did you recently do the 10.4.9 update? I was recently experiencing very similar issues on my usually rock solid Dual G5. It turned out to be the update, unfortunatley to fix the problem required a complete wipe and re-install.
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Also, did you try taking out the new RAM and seeing if the problem clears up?
debe
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I did recently upgrade to 10.4.9 – I wonder. Hmmm.
Also – no I have not taken out the RAM yet.
Drat.
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The is an Apple doc about capture problems in FCP and FCE in versions prior to FCP5 and FCE3.5.
https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305284
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs
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Thanks – that appears to be it. I’m running 4.5. I guess it’s time to upgrade.
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Unfortunately you’ve missed the Apple crossgrade deal which expired about a week ago. If you can you’re probably best off waiting until April 15th to see whatever NAB announcement Apple will be making.
All the best,
Tom
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs
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I think I can wait. I’ll just archive and reinstall and then see what comes up.
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